A Paper Moon Solar Eclipse
It may look like a paper Moon. Sailing past a canvas Sun. But those are not cardboard clouds. And it’s not make believe. The featured picture of an orange colored sky is real – a digital composite of two exposures of the solar eclipse that occurred earlier this month. The first exposure was taken with a regular telescope that captured an overexposed Sun and an underexposed Moon, while the second image was taken with a solar telescope that captured details of the chromosphere of the background Sun.
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